Empiricist Quotes
- Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of… — Megan Chance
- The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize… — Mao Zedong
- The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the… — E. O. Wilson
- To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open… — Blake Bailey
- To develop an empiricist account of science is to depictit as involving a search for truth only about the empiricalworld, about what is actual and… — Bas Van Fraassen